{"id":1351,"date":"2021-05-02T15:38:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T13:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/02\/why-are-apple-and-epic-going-to-court-over-fortnite-currency\/"},"modified":"2021-05-02T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T13:38:43","slug":"why-are-apple-and-epic-going-to-court-over-fortnite-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/02\/why-are-apple-and-epic-going-to-court-over-fortnite-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Apple and Epic going to court over Fortnite currency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We look at the issues that led the two firms to pick a fight over content allowed on Apple\u2019s App Store<\/p>\n<p>Apple and Epic Games will go head to head in court in front of a US federal judge on Monday, the latest stage in the Fortnite maker\u2019s campaign to break open the iPhone\u2019s walled garden.<\/p>\n<p>The feud has been growing since last August, when Epic set in motion a plan \u2013 known internally as \u201cproject liberty\u201d \u2013 to try to get past the restrictions Apple places on software made for iPhones and iPads. Here is what brought the two companies to this point.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/may\/02\/why-are-apple-and-epic-going-to-court-over-fortnite-currency\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/82314eae3ec4d43d447033315226b53ff9811506\/0_28_2203_1322\/master\/2203.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c56094a8f230315314092dc17d2cde19\" title=\"Why are Apple and Epic going to court over Fortnite currency?\" \/>We look at the issues that led the two firms to pick a fight over content allowed on Apple\u2019s App Store<br \/>\nApple and Epic Games will go head to head in court in front of a US federal judge on Monday, the latest stage in the Fortnite maker\u2019s campaign to break open the iPhone\u2019s walled garden.<br \/>\nThe feud has been growing since last August, when Epic set in motion a plan \u2013 known internally as \u201cproject liberty\u201d \u2013 to try to get past the restrictions Apple places on software made for iPhones and iPads. Here is what brought the two companies to this point. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look at the issues that led the two firms to pick a fight over content allowed on Apple\u2019s App Store Apple and Epic Games will go head to head in court in front of a US federal judge on Monday, the latest stage in the Fortnite maker\u2019s campaign to break open the iPhone\u2019s walled &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/02\/why-are-apple-and-epic-going-to-court-over-fortnite-currency\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why are Apple and Epic going to court over Fortnite currency?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}